Homemade Pumpkin Spice Donuts

Name: Homemade Pumpkin Spice Donuts
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 cup (125ml) vegetable oil; 3 large eggs; 1 1/2 cups (300g) granulated sugar; 1 1/2 cups (365g) canned pumpkin purée; 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (or 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp nutmeg & 1/2 tsp ginger); 1 1/2 tsp salt; 1 1/2 tsp baking powder; 1 3/4 cups minus 2 tbp (8oz) all-purpose flour; 1/2 cup (100g) granulated sugar; 2 tsp ground cinnamon

Jump To Recipe by Lily Ernst

These made-from-scratch baked pumpkin donuts are soft, moist and fluffy with a delightful cinnamon-sugar coating. They have that wonderful pumpkin spice flavor we all know and love.I’ve been dreaming about Tim Horton’s pumpkin spice donuts since the beginning of fall. So when I found out they discontinued them I was crushed. My beloved pumpkin spice donut was replaced by a pumpkin spice muffin. What the? How could they?

Good thing I recently purchased some donut pans. So my search for my Tim Horton’s-“like” pumpkin spice donuts began. I went with this recipe from King Arthur Flour because it’s a trusted source and I liked PJ Hamel’s detailed explanation of the recipe. Plus it looked very similar to Tim Horton’s.It’s an easy one-bowl recipe that can be made by hand, which is the method I seem to prefer these days. You simply mix all the ingredients except the flour together until smooth, then stir in the flour and you’re done. How great is that? The donuts take just 15 minutes to bake and you toss them in some cinnamon sugar while they are still warm. And I’m telling you, nothing is better than a warm soft pumpkin donut freshly coated in cinnamon-sugar.

These donuts are incredibly soft and moist with a lovely pumpkin flavor. They are spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger, and on top of that, they are wrapped in a wonderful cinnamon-sugar coating. The texture of the crunchy sugar coating with the soft center just takes these donuts over the top!